Fast Cheap and under Control : Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time

by Gaspard, John

• ISBN13: 9781932907155
• ISBN10: 1932907157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-15
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Other filmmakers with as little money, as little time, and just as many pressures as you'll be facing have achieved remarkable feats in low-budget filmmaking. They overcame the same problems, and some that you could never have imagined. And now their lessons are available to you, thanks to low-budget guru John Gaspard.Each of the nearly three dozen low-budget classics examined in this book offer a handful of indispensable how-tos, from stretching your production dollars and making your movie stand out from the pack to developing a unique story, from getting great performances out of your actors when you have limited time and money to establishing your reputation as an indie filmmaker.Includes revealing new interviews with such low-budget mavericks as Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors), Jon Favreau (Swingers), Henry Jaglom (Festival in Cannes), Daniel Myrick (The Blair Witch Project), Bob Odenkirk (Melvin Goes to Dinner), Barbara Steele (Caged Heat), L.M. Kit Carson (David Holzman's Diary), Alan Cumming (The Anniversary Party), and more.* Learn how to achieve remarkable feats in low-budget filmmaking* Full of examples from low-budget classics* Includes revealing new interviews with such low-budget mavericks as Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors)and many more

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xii
Corman & Company	1	(32)
Little Shop of Horrors
Dementia 13
Targets
Caged Heat
Grand Theft Auto
Fiercely Independent	33	(34)
Return of the Secaucus Seven
Patti Rocks
What Happened Was...
In the Company of Men
Judy Berlin
Out of This World	67	(28)
Carnival of Souls
Night of the Living Dead
Dark Star
π
In a League of Their Own	95	(34)
Shadows
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Eraserhead
Someone to Love
Fake Out!	129	(28)
David Holzman's Diary
The Last Broadcast
The Blair Witch Project
Lisa Picard Is Famous
The New Establishment	157	(36)
sex, lies and videotape
Slacker
El Mariachi
Clerks
Swingers
The Digital Realm	193	(36)
The Anniversary Party
Tadpole
Dopamine
Melvin Goes to Dinner
Open Water
The Lessons Redux	229	(14)
Afterword	243	(2)
Notes	245	(29)
The Movies	274	(2)
Bibliography	276	(5)
About the Author	281